uname Output

[Collins Richey]

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 23:50:52 -0500, Jerry McBride <mcbrides9 at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Sunday 16 January 2005 10:39 pm, Ian Stephen wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 18:48, Kurt Wall wrote:
> > > So, I execute 'uname -a' and I get the following:
> > >
> > > $ uname -a
> > > Linux luther 2.6.10 #1 Sat Jan 15 01:43:34 EST 2005 i686 unknown
> > > unknown GNU/Linux
> > >
> > > The two "unknown" fields are for the processor and hardware platform,
> > > which _ought_ to be pretty well known. The processor is an AMD Athlon
> > > 1200 and the hardware platform is IA32, or whatever Intel is calling
> > > their 32-bit x86 systems these days.
> > >
> > > How do I get this into my uname string?
> >
> > Huh, I get
> >
> > Linux localhost 2.6.3-7mdk #1 Wed Mar 17 15:56:42 CET 2004 i686 unknown
> > unknown
> >
> 
> How does that compare to /proc/cpuinfo?
> 
> Mine says:
> 
> Linux spinner 2.6.10 #3 Sat Jan 8 16:32:26 EST 2005 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP
> 3200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
> 
> Which is right out of /proc/....
> 

Me thinkest thou mightest be running Slackware. I get the same results
on my Slackware system with the default 2.4 kernel. On Gentoo,
however, I get the normal values.

HTH,

-- 
 Collins